Knitting Project BagHandwoven Amish Wicker Crochet & Yarn Tote

• Handcrafted Quality: Handwoven from natural rattan reed over a solid hardwood bottom, shaped and finished entirely by hand. No two bags are exactly alike, and each one is built to hold up through years of daily use.
• A Knitting Project Bag That Stands Open: The flat bottom and firm woven sides keep the bag upright beside your chair, so you knit or crochet straight from the bag while the yarn feeds up without tangling. No holes, no snags, no chasing skeins across the floor.
• Room for a Whole Sweater Project: Measures 17" x 7 1/2" x 12" tall, the larger of our two knitting bags. It holds several skeins plus needles, hooks, scissors, and your pattern with room to spare.
• Genuine Steerhide Handles: Hand cut, hand rolled, and riveted from genuine US steerhide leather. They are comfortable in the hand and strong enough for a fully loaded yarn tote.
• Three Trim Colors: Choose Plain for a classic natural look, or Wine & Blue or Wine & Green trim to suit your sitting room and your stash.
• Optional Extras, Add If You Like: A removable, washable cloth liner in four colors, a Yarn Buddy strap that guides your working yarn, an engraved brass plate, and protective feet are each optional additions on this page. The bag is complete and ready to use without them.
• American Heritage: Handwoven by an Old Order Amish family on the Iowa-Missouri border and personally signed by the crafter who made it. Covered by our lifetime guarantee, with free shipping on every order.

This knitting project bag is woven to work the way you do. Set it beside your chair and the firm sides hold it open, so you knit or crochet straight from the bag while the yarn feeds up smoothly instead of rolling under the sofa. There is room inside for a full sweater project, several skeins, your needles and hooks, and the pattern besides. One knitter called it "large enough to fit a complete sweater project, yet not so large as to be unwieldy," her Goldilocks basket, and that is exactly the size the family who weaves it was after.

Customers often ask how this bag compares to our other carriers, so here is the plain answer. The Knitting & Crochet Travel Bag is the smaller grab-and-go bag at 12" x 9" x 10" tall, sized for one small project on the move. The Wicker Tote Bag shares this bag's exact size and build, but it is styled as an everyday carryall. This project bag is the one made for working: it stands upright on its own, the open top lets your yarn feed freely with no holes needed in the weave, and it takes the optional Yarn Buddy strap that guides your working yarn as you go. And so there are no surprises later, there is no lid for this bag. The open top is the working design.

It earns its keep between projects too. Use it as a yarn storage basket beside your chair, a knitting caddy for guild nights and lessons, or a crochet project bag that rides along to appointments and waiting rooms. One customer chose it for her 93 year old mother, who could no longer travel to visit her Amish friends, and wrote that she "loves to crochet and the basket was perfect." When the last stitch is bound off, it is still a handsome open basket for throws, mail, or magazines.

Every knitting basket in our store is handwoven by Old Order Amish families on the Iowa-Missouri border, and this one arrives signed by the crafter who wove it. As one customer put it, "The fact that it is personally signed makes it even more special to me." Your bag ships free and gift-ready, with no prices in the box, and it is covered by our lifetime guarantee for as long as you own it. If it turns out not to be right for your craft corner, send it back anytime, no questions asked; you only cover the return shipping. Finished bags are ready in the Shipping Barn and arrive in three to five weekdays.